Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

8323 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/07/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Aurélia Georges • Director of Secret Name

“As women, we have gained some space and some freedom, but corsets take different shapes”

Aurélia Georges • Director of Secret Name

In her Locarno competition entry, the Paris-born filmmaker focuses on women, and women only  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Gaëtan Liekens • Co-director of Music Hole

“A comedy about the demise of a relationship, or rather the denial of its demise”

Gaëtan Liekens • Co-director of Music Hole

We met with the co-director (alongside David Mutzenmacher) of this dark and off-the-wall comedy written with a Belgian accent, which is released in Belgium...  

12/08/2021 | /Belgium/France

Ruth Platt • Director of Martyrs Lane

“I find it interesting when people say they don’t like horror; I need it!”

Ruth Platt • Director of Martyrs Lane

In the British filmmaker’s third feature, you need not worry about what’s out in the woods, as chances are, what’s inside of your house is much worse  

12/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021

Émilie Aussel • Director of Our Eternal Summer

“In all of my films, I like to tell myself that the landscapes feel the same things as the characters”

Émilie Aussel • Director of Our Eternal Summer

The French director speaks to us about her first feature film, a poetic hymn to adolescence which follows a strong yet tortured, hypersensitive youngster  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

“The steppe is right on our doorstep but it’s as if it creates some sort of abyss”

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

The Argentine director and HEAD graduate speaks to us about her first feature film, which was shot in the Argentine desert and revolves around an...  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

“I like to shoot in places where nobody has taken a camera before”

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

The award-winning short filmmaker presents his long-awaited feature debut, shot with non-professional actors in his hometown of Elche, which is dripping...  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

“There is this kind of reappropriation of the symbols and the imagery surrounding the things that have, in the past, stigmatised the personal lives of women”

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

Cineuropa caught up with the director at the Locarno Film Festival, where her debut film, a genre-bending gothic horror, had its world premiere  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Out of Competition

Hleb Papou • Director of The Legionnaire

"The objective was to show our point of view on modern Italy"

Hleb Papou • Director of The Legionnaire

The director's first feature is a social drama about two brothers fighting on opposite sides  

10/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

“In some ways, my film is like a nature documentary: you show how little people live, how the world affects them and how they affect the world”

Rasmus Merivoo • Director of Kratt

We talked to the Estonian director about his film, which is really for the whole family, even though parents might need to answer some questions after the...  

10/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021

Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

“We wanted it to be as true to the realities of the Filipino community as possible”

Araceli Lemos • Director of Holy Emy

The Greek director tells the intimate story of two Filipino sisters in Greece who have to protect their bond against the outside world  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

“In my opinion, emotions are transmitted through simplicity”

Axelle Ropert • Director of Petite Solange

A charismatic, young actress stars in the French director’s new film, dealing with divorce shown from the perspective of a child  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

“I wanted to use the handheld camera to be closer to the protagonists and to be able to react spontaneously to the acting”

Sabrina Sarabi • Director of No One's with the Calves

In her Cineasti del Presente title, the German director follows a young woman on her way to emancipation  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

“I think the experiences we all have behind us are fascinating”

Neus Ballús • Director of The Odd-Job Men

The Catalonian filmmaker talks to us about her third feature, another fiction-documentary hybrid that is toplined by non-professional actors  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”

Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a Beast

The young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film Festival’s International Competition  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Stefan Ruzowitzky • Director of Hinterland

“My protagonist feels the world is twisted and distorted; German Expressionists wanted to communicate the same thing”

Stefan Ruzowitzky • Director of Hinterland

Selected for the Piazza Grande section of Locarno, the Austrian helmer’s new film shows the landscape after World War I  

06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Piazza Grande

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